Max McCoy is the editor of Jesse: A Novel of the Outlaw Jesse James, a 1999 what-if work of fiction that tackles the life and mysterious death of this famous one-time Quantrill guerilla. What ... Read more

Christian G. Samito is the editor of Commanding Boston’s Irish Ninth: The Civil War Letters of Colonel Patrick R. Guiney, Ninth Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry, a major find of unpublished ... Read more

Thomas J. Rowland is the author of George B. McClellan and Civil War History: In the Shadow of Grant and Sherman (Kent State University Press). His is the first-ever book-length review of ... Read more

Diane Monroe Smith is the author of Fanny & Joshua: The Enigmatic Lives of Frances Caroline Adams and Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain, a dual biography that sheds new light on the overexposed ... Read more

Dean B. Mahin is the author of One War at a Time: The International Dimensions of the American Civil War, a concise overview of the North’s diplomacy that breaks new ground. You make the ... Read more

Jim Ridgway is the author of Little Mac: Demise of an American Hero, a revision of the Radical Republican view of McClellan that dominates today’s histories. You have written a biography ... Read more

In 1862, Confederate president Jefferson Davis was forced to choose another general to lead the Army of Northern Virginia after Joseph E. Johnston was struck twice in the Battle of Seven Pines ... Read more